New York Times article on cast iron cookware

[Mark R. Smith]

Nice little article fron the NYT website about the new popular trend of cooking with cast iron and how it has expanded. Also mentions the new foundries making cast iron in the USA. They did mention Lodge.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/dining/cast-iron-skillet-finex-field-company.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0

[Tom Neitzel]

Nice article.  Thanks Mark.

[Roger Muse]

Saw one of the Finex cast iron skillets a few months ago.  Was NOT impressed.
It looked rough cast, and the cooking surface, while machined, left about a 1/4" unmachined edge around the whole thing.
The machining wasn't the smooth surface like an old Griswold.  If you ran a fingernail across it you can catch it on every single blade cut in the surface.
It also wasn't a discernible weight difference from a Lodge.

[Claudia Killebrew]

Wapak Chickenfoot? That's a new one on me. Is there another name for it? Pictures anyone?

[Russell Ware]

Wapak Chickenfoot? That's a new one on me. Is there another name for it? Pictures anyone?

It has to do with the feet at the bottom of the overly large "P" in the example below:

[Claudia Killebrew]

Thank you. Didn't know it had that name.

[Jim Glatthaar]

I agree, great article.  It reminds me why I got into this in the first place.  I wanted a cast iron skillet to cook with.  After researching, the consensus was that the older skillets were better made and better to cook with.  Since I can never buy one of anything I bought #8 & #10 Wagner stylized logos to cook with.  Now, over 150 cast iron pieces later ... :o

[C. Perry Rapier]

This is a wonderful article. In the article they talk about four generations that have come from Corbin, Ky. That is where I am from, originally. Thanks for posting this Mark. And Jim, I know exactly what you are talking about. I remember one day a long time ago I laid out my cast iron pieces and I had thirty two pieces plus three or four more that I was using at the time. And I thought WOW I never realized I had so many pieces.  ;D

[Jim Glatthaar]

Boy is that funny, Perry.  To think you only had 35 or 36 pieces, that is  ;D ;D ;D